成功学英语Chapter4-Do This And You'll Be Welcome Anywhere

1.A hen has to lay eggs, a cow has to give milk, and a canary has to sing. But a dog makes his living by giving you nothing but love.

E.g., When I was five, my father bought a little yellow-haired pup for fifty cents. He was the light and joy of my childhood. Every afternoon about four-thirty, he would sit in the front yard with his beautiful eyes staring steadfastly at the path, and as soon as he heard my voice or saw me swinging my dinner pail through the buck brush, he was off like a shot, racing breathlessly up the hill to greet me with leaps of joy and barks of sheer ecstasy.

2. You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. But I know and you know people who blunder through life trying to wigwag other people into becoming interested in them.

3. If we merely try to impress people and get people interested in us, we will never have many true, sincere friends. Friends, real friends, are not made that way.

4. It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring.

E.g., The editor could pick up any one of the dozens of stories that drifted across his desk every day and after reading a few paragraphy he could feel whether or not the author liked people. The same things you preacher would tell you, but remember, you have to be interested in people if you want to be a successful writer of stories. If it is true of writing fiction, you can be sure it is true of dealing with people face-to-face.

5. It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among

such individuals that all human failures spring.

E.g., He told me that every time he went on stage he said to himself:"I am grateful because these people come to see me, they make it possible for me to make my living in a very agreeable way. I'm going to give them the very best I possibly can."

6. Having a sustained interest in other people let George Dyke create a new life for himself at a time when most people consider their productive years over and it also was one of the secrets of Theodore Roosevelt’s astonishing popularity.

E.g., George became know to the country music fans in the eastern part of the United States as “Uncle George. Theodore Roosevelt told James E. Amos’ wife the bobwhite enthusiastically and treated his subordinates sincerely.

7.I never forgot that to be genuinely interested in other people is a most